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Name: Moscow Electrical Engineering Institute of Communications 
(Moskovskiy elektrotekhnicheskiy institut svyazi--MEIS) 
Address: Moscow, Aviamotornaya ulitsa, 8 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: Ministry of Communications, U.S.S.R. (1960) 
Selected Staff Members: 
E. L. Blokh, Professor 
M. M. Bondaryuk, Professor 
I. Goron, Professor, Head of Laboratory for Magnetic Recording 
N. I. Kalashnikov, Docent 
S. I. Katayev, Professor, Head of Chair of Television 
V. A. Klyaznik, Docent 
V. N. Kuleshov, Professor 
L. I. Kurdov, Docent 
V. S. Mel'nikov, Docent 
A. L. Mikayelyan, Professor 
M. V. Nazarov, Docent 
M. T. Strel'nikov, Docent 
S. A. Yamanov, Docent 
L. A. Zhekulin, Professor 
Description: 
Until 1959, undergraduate engineering degrees were awarded in radio 
communications and broadcasting, cable communications, and economics; gradu- 
ate training was also available in related specialized areas. Presently, 
under-graduate training programs cover 5-1/2 years. The initial 3 years are 
devoted to intensive theoretical studies; the remaining time is spent in 
direct employment in fields reflecting various specialties (viz., radio- 
relay communication lines, radio communications and broadcasting, TV, 
automation and mechanization of production processes, telephony and tele- 
graphy, long-range communications). 
To promote productive effort, the Institute maintains shops, with 
annual programs of contractual work, for developing simpler types of communi- 
cations instruments. Representative of the equipment developed here are a 
"pallistic” antenna, an electronic telegrapher operating on small batteries, 
an automatic magnetic-tape symbol-printing apparatus, and an ultra-small 
semiconductor receiver powered by flashlight batteries. In collaboration 
with other Moscow institutes, a system of artificial reverberation for 
altering the acoustic properties of a room was developed. Members of the 
Institute’s staff had designed a radial UHF radio-communication system as 
early as 1957-1958, and at about the same time, were perfecting an 
electronically switched telephone sub-exchange. 
